St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-16
THAT BROKEN BRIDGE.
So Far 1t is Known to Have Been Re.
sponsible For the Loss of Twenty
four Lives,
While la Persons Who Escaped Did So
in a More or Less Mangled
Condition.
The Work of Clearing Away the
Wreck Prosecuted All Day
Yesterday.
a schooner Ashore on the Massa-
chusetts Coast--An Extensive
Buffalo Fire.

BOSTON, Mass, March IA revised
list of the injured in the railroad accident
yesterday shows that ia persons vera
wounded. Owing to duplication and mis-
spelling OF names it is now believed that
the reports OF the number of persens killed
nave been considerably overestimated. Up
to noon to-day DR.. Draper mad signed
twenty-one death certificates. and DR.. Har-
rls three. making the entire death total I'D
to noon twenty-fcur. The names thus in
correctly reported were: Barrack. found
TO be injured; Miss Swallow, escertained to
De Mrs. Swallow, found to be wounded;
James Gates, mistaken for Harry GRAY;
Mr.. Stone and Charles Swan mistaken for
MI Snow; William Houghton identified
with 5. j. Houghton: Frank A. Hewins,
alive and unlnJured, not even on the train.
A Mrs. Kennard was reported
killed but the name was con-
fused with that of Mrs. Cardinal.
All night long force of laborers was en-
gagedin clearing up the debris of the
wreck at the scene of the bridge disaster.
1t was slow work and but little headway
was made. Yet the men worked hard and
when the light of the morning was suffi-
clent for the continuation of the work,
without the means of artificial light, the
work progressed more rapidly. An engine
pulled the forward car from the embank-
ment to the track where it remains. one
end resting upon the ground. while the
forward trucks are still attached. Strewn
along the southern embankment are quaint.
ties OF car seats, railings. iron braces,
window panes and doors, which had been
gathered from the debris and which were
loaded this morning and brought to the
city. large force of policemen
GUARDED THE SCENE
and kept the curious from entering the
lines and thus the laborers had sufficient
opportunities to carry on their labor unm-
peded. Ropes were stretched around the
scene and all persons who were not actively
engaged In clearing the wreck forced to
keep outside the line. At an early hour
this morning more laborers reinforced the
tired men who had swung the axe and
pulled and tugged on doors and other por-
tions OF the wrecked cars, and large force
was put to work in taking the broken
bridge apart. The baggage car and one of
the regulars of the train had been
completely demolished, and all that marks
the spot where these two cars were, at the
base OF the embankment, is heap of kind
ling wood, some Of which has the appear
ance of having been through grain hop
per, and was bolted so fine that the wood
was crushed. The wreck is a more ap-
palling sight than the recent ruins at White
| River junction and Deerfield, and this
points strongly to the fact that the train
was running at a speed of fully twenty
five miles an hour. The forward cars,
which lie on the embankment and in the
roadway, remain in the same position az
when they fell. There were undoubtedly
nine cars in the train, as the the tin tops OF
nine are to be found, but the remains Oh
| two Of the cars are in such a state of demo-
lition that it is impossible to discern whether
there were two cars or one. This was
caused by the
FALL DOWN THE EAfBANKMENT, r.
and consequently the rumor has prevailed
| that there were but eight cars on the train.
Several of the stoves of the cars have been
removed, and in every case the iron rods
which serve to hold them in position have
been found to be secure, while not stove
door was burst open, although one stove was
badly broken. AT an early hour this morn
ing there began to be constant stream OF
visitors to the scene, and before z o'clock
several hundred persons had looked upon
the frightful evidences of the disaster
Everybody who visited the scene carried
away portions of the wreck as mementoeS.
At 10 o'clock Railroad Commissioner Kins
ley arrived on the scene and made detou.
OF the embankmentS with view to inveSti
eating the cause of the accident. Chief
Engineer Davis, of the Boston 6 Provi-
dence railroad, says it is impossible to tell
when the wreckage can be sufficiently re-
moved to allow of the erection of struct-
ure which will permit the resumption Of
traffic over the route.